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By: FEDweek StaffGAO’s latest compilation of pending high-priority recommendations for OMB remains again focused on areas such as acquisition, cybersecurity and financial controls.
The number of such recommendations was reduced by four to 40, following OMB guidance on a technical point involving risk of fraud and GAO’s decision to close three recommendations related to transparency of spending data.
The remaining priority recommendations include to: create a federal program inventory that provides complete, comparable, and useful information, and better integrate related statutory requirements; better meet the information needs of various decision makers; and issue required implementation guidance to agencies on making data open by default and on developing and maintaining comprehensive data inventories.
GAO also called on OMB to: help agencies improve the manner in which they procure, track, and manage the hundreds goods and services; reduce improper payments; develop a government-wide cybersecurity workforce plan, collect data on agencies’ use of cloud services, and solicit input from state and federal IT stakeholders to implement an approach that results in more effective coordination of state cybersecurity requirements; and strengthen oversight over disaster relief funding and help ensure agencies are using these funds appropriately; and update policies and procedures on electronic recordkeeping systems,
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